I can't start a game on Mac OS X. The connect, settings, exit, local server buttons all don't respond to clicks. I can type server addresses and passwords (hit enter to move between those two fields) and press Esc to exit.. that's it.

I don't know if Macs do this or not, but check to make sure that the annoying "Would you like to create a shortcut?" dialog is gone before you enter full screen mode. It has an annoying way of grabbing the input.

yeah, I had that dialog stealing focus from the full screen window. (the only thing that gave it away, was the mouse cursor, which reverted to the system cursor instead of that little ship) The solution is ez enough, just press escape once.

The new veresion with the 'do you want to play fullscreen' dialog fixes the problem though

I can look a bit deeper this evening. I'm happy to test on the Mac for people. In the end it means more games for us Mac users.

If you sign up as a developer on Apple's web site (there is a level of free membership) you can access their java-dev email list and ask questions there. It might be a good place to ask for volunteer testers as well.

Fraid you need to click the settings button to get to that option after the first check..

However, if you locate the directory ".astroprime" someone (depends on webstart) on your harddrive and delete the files inside (or edit them, its pretty obvious properties files), should get check again..

Found it.. BUT... don't do that. It has put clients.prop in the directory with the Web Start application and/or the root of the HD. Something that I feel Web Start apps shouldn't be messing with. (It is possible even that on some systems the file permissions would make this impossible.)

What is wrong with the user's home directory?

Ok.. Test Results:

It works in windowed mode! Interesting... if we can isolate the full-screen problem I will file a bug report with Apple.The text in the middle of the screen when you start a game is illegible. (I think it says press space to start or something like that.)Your ship appears on top of a green square that rotates with the ship.During the game the cursor is changed to a small black rectangle.

Found it.. BUT... don't do that. It has put clients.prop in the directory with the Web Start application and/or the root of the HD. Something that I feel Web Start apps shouldn't be messing with. (It is possible even that on some systems the file permissions would make this impossible.)

What is wrong with the user's home directory?

Ok.. Test Results:

It works in windowed mode! Interesting... if we can isolate the full-screen problem I will file a bug report with Apple.The text in the middle of the screen when you start a game is illegible. (I think it says press space to start or something like that.)Your ship appears on top of a green square that rotates with the ship.During the game the cursor is changed to a small black rectangle.

Found it.. BUT... don't do that. It has put clients.prop in the directory with the Web Start application and/or the root of the HD. Something that I feel Web Start apps shouldn't be messing with. (It is possible even that on some systems the file permissions would make this impossible.)

What is wrong with the user's home directory?

Ok.. Test Results:

It works in windowed mode! Interesting... if we can isolate the full-screen problem I will file a bug report with Apple. The text in the middle of the screen when you start a game is illegible. (I think it says press space to start or something like that.) Your ship appears on top of a green square that rotates with the ship. During the game the cursor is changed to a small black rectangle.

* The directory it tries to write to is ".". Which, I had assumed that web start created a directory to run each app in, and hence using "." would keep all the files with the application. I've already put a hack in for windows. I'll rectify this. Does the "user.home" still work as system property on all platforms?

* Yeah, I've been kind of aware of the text problem. It will get updated at a later time. At this moment, its not really at alpha test yet. Just needed to sort this visual style out.

* See, the green square is interesting. The Ship is a gif with a transparent background. The color of the background is a vibrant green (to help with screening it out). So, OSX isn't supporting transparent gifs? Or, more likely, I'm doing something wrong?

* The cursor, again, its a black sqaure, but all the alpha is set to 0, meaning it should be a transparent black square. This is how I turn the mouse off. Doesn't seem to be any other way. So again, OSX isn't supporting transparency, or do I need to turn something on? Again, I'll look into it and post back.

Just to reiterate, MUCH MUCH MUCH appreciated.

Kev 'off to find the Java 2D bug parade'

Abuse: Damn right, Java2D really does need work to be compatible across platforms. The above problem would be hassle for even applications, let alone games. But I suppose its a step better (in my view) than worrying about platform,vendor and driver dependance in something OpenGL .